This was fantastically written. So compelling. The past and present were weaved together with such precision and skill. And the nonfiction and fiction were mixed just as well. This was so believable (even in the fiction spots) and so much fun to read. I have always had a soft spot for Anastasia and the Romanovs and this book has been one of the best I've read, playing on the mystery surrounding Anastasia better than really anything else I've encountered, I could totally see this being what really happened. So impressive with well developed characters that he seems to bring to life and show sides of that are just so intimate, despite the fact that there is so little left about them that is a secret. And Georgy is a superb narrator. Reading a story like this, where the plot is really already so known, the author must really be good to make you want to read it, and boy did he!And the last line, about the uncrowned tsar of Russia on the bak of a London bus, was just an enormously overwhelming image to be left with. It says so much in that one line...amazing and heartbreaking and freeing all at the same time. This is my 3rd book by Boyne and I will definitely be reading a third. He does not disappoint.